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. >>> president obama and republican rival mitt romney are beginning a crucial week on the campaign trail. the president will announce a new trade enforcement case against china during a campaign stop today in ohio, a swing state which blames china for depressing its large manufacturing base. romney is expected to address the issue of immigration as he reaches out to latino voters in the los angeles area. >>> at&t says it set a pre-order sales record for the iphone 5 over the weekend. the company doesn't say how many units were sold, but it does say the newest iphone is still available for pre-orders and will be in stores starting this friday. >>> the price of gasoline has jumped another five cents a gallon in just the past week. aaa says the nationwide average is now 3.87 a gallon for regular. the nickel jump is blamed on unrest in the middle east, hurricane isaac's impact on the u.s. oil refineries and other factors. >>> well, 3-d was a big draw at weekend box office. the 3-d release of "resident evil retribution" grabbed the top spot with more than $21 million in ticket sales. disney's
. >>> president obama and republican rival mitt romney are beginning a crucial week on the campaign trail. the president will announce a new trade enforcement case against china during a campaign stop today in ohio, a swing state which blames china for depressing its large manufacturing base. romney is expected to address the issue of immigration as he reaches out to latino voters in the los angeles area. >>> at&t says it set a pre-order sales record for the iphone 5 over...
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president obama is holding a rally in virginia beach. let's get a check of the forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. we have a partly sunny sky here. 72 degrees is the temperature. we are seeing the mercury come up. today's high temperature, 84 degrees. it's going to be plenty warm. we'll see more showers and storms. the best chance at 5:00 or so. the bes[ male announcer ]r so. for the dreamers... and those well grounded. for what's around this corner... and the next. there's cash flow options from pnc. solutions to help businesses like yours accelerate receivables, manage payments, and help ensure access to credit. because we know how important cash flow is to reaching your goals. pnc bank. for the achiever in you. >>> good morning. traveling in northwest d.c., a crash involving a pedestrian is on southbound connecticut avenue at leroy place. approach with caution. heading to i-270 slow from germantown to rockville. stop and go. >> thanks so much.
president obama is holding a rally in virginia beach. let's get a check of the forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. we have a partly sunny sky here. 72 degrees is the temperature. we are seeing the mercury come up. today's high temperature, 84 degrees. it's going to be plenty warm. we'll see more showers and storms. the best chance at 5:00 or so. the bes[ male announcer ]r so. for the dreamers... and those well grounded....
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i think it was a bad week for president obama. if you look at the polling data, president obama dropped six points in the gallup poll over seven days from plus seven to plus one. we've seen him swing in the rasmussen to plus one to minus two. romney's up two. there's a lot of different polls out there. if you look at the target states. the fact is they're all very tight, very close. this is a tight election. >> how can you say it's a bad week for the president when key republicans -- >> look at the poll data i just cited. >> -- can't be a good week for mitt romney when key republicans come out and say things like this. this is david brooks. this comment talking about the taped comments, suggests he really doesn't know much about the country he inhabits. who are these free loaders? is it the iraq war veteran that goes to the v.a.? a student getting a loan to go to colleges, the retiree on social security or medicare? here's mark mckinnon, it reveals a deeply cynical man who sees the country as completely divided, two completely dif
i think it was a bad week for president obama. if you look at the polling data, president obama dropped six points in the gallup poll over seven days from plus seven to plus one. we've seen him swing in the rasmussen to plus one to minus two. romney's up two. there's a lot of different polls out there. if you look at the target states. the fact is they're all very tight, very close. this is a tight election. >> how can you say it's a bad week for the president when key republicans --...
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i think this one shows if president obama takes ohio. >> we do. let me show you what happens when we give him ohio, watch the number change, and watch how close he gets to 220. gets him to 261 here. and now that means what? there's about four different scenarios, let me clean the map up here. four different scenarios now, savannah, that gets him to 270, but let's give romney the benefit of the doubt and assume that in the order of the other remaining eight states, florida, north carolina, wisconsin, although who knows now with packer fans how they will feel and whether they even show up to vote. >> had to get the football in. >> colorado, upset this them. you get him to 264 and leads up, and people kept asking me, what is this year's florida? what is this year's ohio? when you go through any scenario, i get -- i come to the state of virginia. virginia in 2008 was the state that most closely matched the national number. it is the state that is sort of right there on the edge. the president has a little bit of a lead but it seems to match where he i
i think this one shows if president obama takes ohio. >> we do. let me show you what happens when we give him ohio, watch the number change, and watch how close he gets to 220. gets him to 261 here. and now that means what? there's about four different scenarios, let me clean the map up here. four different scenarios now, savannah, that gets him to 270, but let's give romney the benefit of the doubt and assume that in the order of the other remaining eight states, florida, north carolina,...
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new jabs on the campaign trail this morning as president obama fires off a new tv ad slamming gop candidate mitt romney for not, quote, coming clean about his tax returns while criticizing americans who don't pay income taxes. romney has released just two years of his tax information. this as the presidential debates are just nine days away. >>> a sweeping analysis of the genes behind breast cancer. scientists announced that they have found four major classes. disease. the new finding offers hope for better targeted treatments, possibly putting drugs already on the market to work, including one currently used to fight ovarian cancer. the study was published by the journal "nature." >>> a winning streak went uninterrupted last night at the emmy awards as "modern family" took home the prize for best comedy for the third year in a row. top drama this year went to terrorism thriller "homeland." the show stars claire danes and damian lewis who also took the top acting awards but a strange new record for critically acclaimed "mad men," the show had an unprecedented 17 nominations but zero wins. >
new jabs on the campaign trail this morning as president obama fires off a new tv ad slamming gop candidate mitt romney for not, quote, coming clean about his tax returns while criticizing americans who don't pay income taxes. romney has released just two years of his tax information. this as the presidential debates are just nine days away. >>> a sweeping analysis of the genes behind breast cancer. scientists announced that they have found four major classes. disease. the new finding...
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this is from the obama campaign. that new ad is the first one to use romney's comments that were caught on hidden camera where he refers to some americans as victims and government dependant. the ad will accuse him of criticizing americans who don't pay their income taxes when he hasn't, quote, come clean about his own. natalie. >> all right. peter alexander in denver, colorado. thanks so much, peter. >>> zoo officials are investigating the sudden death of a newborn panda cub in washington, d.c. the week-old cub had been a happy surprise at the national zoo. its mother had suffered five failed pregnancies in the past. officials say there were no obvious external injuries or signs of infection, but a necropsy should know more today. >>> the nfl is asking coaches to respect the referees during the lockout. bill belichick may have ignored that last night and may face a fine from the league but he doesn't expect he'll have to pay up. we'll see about that. >>> a winning streak went uninterrupted at the emmy awards as "mod
this is from the obama campaign. that new ad is the first one to use romney's comments that were caught on hidden camera where he refers to some americans as victims and government dependant. the ad will accuse him of criticizing americans who don't pay their income taxes when he hasn't, quote, come clean about his own. natalie. >> all right. peter alexander in denver, colorado. thanks so much, peter. >>> zoo officials are investigating the sudden death of a newborn panda cub in...
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>> i'm saying president obama. >> you got this one. >> yes. >> president obama speaking about jay-z and beyonce who had a fund-raiser here in new york for president obama this week so he spoke about that. >> okay. >> they raised a lot of money for obama, $4 million. >> wow. >> now let's talk about what is hot in hollywood. >> yes. >> sunday is the 64th annual primetime emmy awards, just talked about our picks downstairs and top drama, "downton abbey." >> i think so. >> what about best comedy? >> can go to, will go to "modern family." >> you think it's a sweep? >> no real competition this. show gets 13 million viewers a week. the cast has huge ways. very popular and the emmy voters love it. >> okay. seven primetime emmy awards have gone to tina fey, is that right. >> that's right. >> if she were to win another one, nominated once again in this category. >> a hard category. >> great year for funny ladies. >> that's right. >> but i think julie louis dreyfuss is going to win this one for "veep," election year, 13 times in the past. this could be her third win. but it's tough, lena dunham of
>> i'm saying president obama. >> you got this one. >> yes. >> president obama speaking about jay-z and beyonce who had a fund-raiser here in new york for president obama this week so he spoke about that. >> okay. >> they raised a lot of money for obama, $4 million. >> wow. >> now let's talk about what is hot in hollywood. >> yes. >> sunday is the 64th annual primetime emmy awards, just talked about our picks downstairs and top drama,...
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president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. this bridge. your new car probably rode thesed rails. that shipment you just received was tracked by satellite. we build and maintain. we invest and innovate. so we can deliver what america needs. this year alone, freight rail companies plan to spend twenty-three billion of their own money, not taxpayer dollars, to build bridges, maintain track, and develop new technologies to keep freight rail and our economy moving. there's a lot riding on these rails. but it makes millions off west marylanders every year. now they're running dishonest ads. why? because voting for question seven is a vote to build a... world-class resort casino in maryland. creating thousands of jobs and... ...according to the official department of legislative... services, hundreds of millions for our schools. while saving taxpayer money by cutting casino subsidies. question seven. good jobs and better schools in maryland. not west virginia. >>> a guilty verdict in the drew peterson murder t
president obama: i'm barack obama and... i approve this message. this bridge. your new car probably rode thesed rails. that shipment you just received was tracked by satellite. we build and maintain. we invest and innovate. so we can deliver what america needs. this year alone, freight rail companies plan to spend twenty-three billion of their own money, not taxpayer dollars, to build bridges, maintain track, and develop new technologies to keep freight rail and our economy moving. there's a...
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romney is describing his comments secretly recorded at a fund-raiser critical of millions of president obama's supporters. >> there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on government works believe that they are victims. >> as nbc news obtains a campaign video featuring donald trump that was cut from the democratic national convention. we'll talk about it with mr. trump live. >>> air scare. tense moments between a pilot and air traffic control at jfk airport after anonymous threats against a passenger jet. >> okay. we're surrounded by emergency vehicles. there's a reason for this. somebody's got to give us the reason, or we're going to evacuate the aircraft. you've got 60 seconds. >> we'll have the fiery exchange today, tuesday, september 18th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza >>> welcome to "today" on a busy tuesday morning. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer. big morning in politics here. mitt romney is on defense about the comments secretly recorded at a fund-raise
romney is describing his comments secretly recorded at a fund-raiser critical of millions of president obama's supporters. >> there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent on government works believe that they are victims. >> as nbc news obtains a campaign video featuring donald trump that was cut from the democratic national convention. we'll talk about it with mr. trump live. >>> air scare. tense moments between a pilot and air traffic control at jfk airport after...
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. >> several top defense officials will speak as well as president obama. let's get the latest now from fox 5's melanie alnwick. >> reporter: the president and first lady will have a moment of silence and then travel here to the pentagon for the september 11th memorial ceremony. here's a look at how things are going to go this morning. at 9:30 president obama will lay a wreath and we'll hear the national anthem. 9:37 is the moment of silence to mark when the plane hit the pentagon. there'll be remarks by the president and defense officials and then a rendition of "america the beautiful." it left dulles airport at 8:20 a.m. instead five hijackers took over the plane and turned it around and crashed into the pentagon at 9:37 a.m. killing all 56 passengers as well as the hijackers. it hit on the western side and one section of the building collapsed. 125 workers here that day were also killed and many of them civilians, the memorial was completed and open to the public in 2008. the seventh anniversary of the attacks. it's usually own 24/7 but today it will be
. >> several top defense officials will speak as well as president obama. let's get the latest now from fox 5's melanie alnwick. >> reporter: the president and first lady will have a moment of silence and then travel here to the pentagon for the september 11th memorial ceremony. here's a look at how things are going to go this morning. at 9:30 president obama will lay a wreath and we'll hear the national anthem. 9:37 is the moment of silence to mark when the plane hit the pentagon....
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president obama is campaigning close to home in washington, d.c. today as romney courts donors and voters in pennsylvania, both men gearing up for week's crucial first debate. we have our esteemed panel of nbc news political experts here raring to go, but first let's get to nbc's peter alexander in philadelphia. peter, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. all week long president obama and mitt romney have largely been chasing one another's shadow, first in new york and then ohio and finally in virginia. this weekend they will head their own direction as they prepare for that first critical head-to-head showdown, the first in the country presidential debate in the country next wednesday. virginia, the old dominion. >> we've got to win in virginia. >> reporter: could be the new must-win state this november. >> we'll win virginia again. >> reporter: with duelling events thursday, the president and mitt romney competed for votes in the battleground with deep military ties, appealing to voters who have been to battle before, veteran
president obama is campaigning close to home in washington, d.c. today as romney courts donors and voters in pennsylvania, both men gearing up for week's crucial first debate. we have our esteemed panel of nbc news political experts here raring to go, but first let's get to nbc's peter alexander in philadelphia. peter, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning to you. all week long president obama and mitt romney have largely been chasing one another's shadow, first in new york...
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obama in mr. romney's mock sessions though tried to lower expectations playing up the president's experience. >> he's been through a lot of those one-on-one debates with a republican. mitt has not, and you think about it, he hasn't had a real debate in ten years because these republican debates tend to be more like candidate forums. >> reporter: tuesday the poet candidates both made whirlwind visits to new york city. president obama addressed the u.n. general assembly, appearing to draw a real line in the sand on iran's efforts to build nuclear weapons. >> make no mistake. a nuclear-armed iran is not a challenge that can be contained >> reporter: strong words didn't satisfy romney. >> we can look at the record of the last four years. is iran closer to a nuclear weapon or not, and we know the answer. it's closer to a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: and both candidates tried to one-up each other in praising bill clinton at the former president's annual conference on global giving. romney joked about th
obama in mr. romney's mock sessions though tried to lower expectations playing up the president's experience. >> he's been through a lot of those one-on-one debates with a republican. mitt has not, and you think about it, he hasn't had a real debate in ten years because these republican debates tend to be more like candidate forums. >> reporter: tuesday the poet candidates both made whirlwind visits to new york city. president obama addressed the u.n. general assembly, appearing to...
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president obama takes to david letterman's show to respond to those secretly recorded comments by mitt rney saying as president you have to work for everybody. as romney allows the press into two new fund-raisers and offers no apologies. this morning house minority leader nancy pelosi is here to weigh in. >>> and was jesus married? a harvard professor translate an ancient text in which jesus is said to refer to his wife, and it's ignited a big debate today, wednesday, september 19th, 2012. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lawer. >> good morning, everyone. i'm savannah guthrie. one of those days i'm happy i go to bed at 8:00 p.m. huge storms in new york city. >> you missed the storms. >> i didn't hear a thing. >> man did, it rain. heavy downpours, intense winds. as we said, the damage stretches all the way up and down the east coast. in georgia conditions were so bad that a corporate jet hydroplaned and then crashed after la
president obama takes to david letterman's show to respond to those secretly recorded comments by mitt rney saying as president you have to work for everybody. as romney allows the press into two new fund-raisers and offers no apologies. this morning house minority leader nancy pelosi is here to weigh in. >>> and was jesus married? a harvard professor translate an ancient text in which jesus is said to refer to his wife, and it's ignited a big debate today, wednesday, september 19th,...